CVE-2022-21815

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 7, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Dec 10, 2021

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for private IOCTLs where a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel, created within user mode code, may lead to a denial of service in the form of a system crash.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	nvidia

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NVIDIA GPU Display DriverNVIDIA	All GPU Driver versions for WindowsAffected

References

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5312

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